If you ever have the misfortune to become a prisoner of an Indonesian prison, you will quickly learn that regular funding is needed to survive in the twisted prison system. A prisoner made money using a bogus . account to attract older lonely women in the sharing of photos and videos of naked, then extorted.
Prison inmates are not allowed to have mobile phones or laptops, but money can buy almost everything in prison, even leave weekends to provided you take along a couple of escort guards and look after them.
Saeful Husen (26) serving a sentence of nine years and six months in prison in West Java province, for drug offenses. Sentenced in May 2010, he was due for parole next year. In October 2014, he created a . account under the pseudonym T. Rizal Maulana, posing as a shipping executive based in the capital of East Java Surabaya. To attract friends, he used pictures of a beautiful Filipino wear a uniform of the Training Institute of Nautical Philippines.
One of the victims of Saeful was a school teacher for 50 years from the capital of West Kalimantan Pontianak. Flattered by his compliments online and text messages, she soon fell in love and began sending him pictures of herself via .. When asked to send selfies and videos of herself performing sex acts naked, she consented. Saeful publicly threatened to upload images and videos unless she transferred money to him.
The teacher eventually make transfers .ing Rp.80 million. With no end in sight blackmail, she bravely reported the matter to police on January 8. The police had initially no luck in tracking down 'T. Rizal Maulana ', until they rise its Internet protocol address in Subang class IIA penitentiary at the end of January.
Police found that Saeful were at least five other victims in different provinces. All had transferred funds to a bank account held by the girlfriend of Saeful cellmate. The cellmate had received a cut of each transfer of 10%.
The prison authorities punished Saeful confiscating his smartphone and giving him six days in a special "punishment cell". He also denied family visits for a month and will probably deny parole.
West Kalimantan Chief Brigadier General Ariel Sulistyanto Police said the case should prompt stricter monitoring in prisons to prevent inmates to use the prohibited items, such as mobile phones because they could be used for criminal purposes, including drug trafficking.
In Bali, a student was befriended on . last year by a man who calls himself Putu Agus Sadi Artana and claimed to be 23 years old. Although they never met in person, the student fell in love and regularly transferred money to her "boyfriend" for various expenses assumed, like medicine. It also sent him nude photos of herself. The man then asked for more money or he would release his photos. It transferred a . of Rp.40 million.
The girl confessed his problem to his parents, who last month contacted the police. Officers discovered that the money had been sent to the bank accounts of two men G.N. Gunawan and Kadek Diari Arsana-two of them detained in prison Karangasem Bali. Police have so far only named the pair as witnesses pending further investigation.
"He told them he could use his magical powers to eliminate" negative auras "of their bodies, provided he could see them naked."
In the capital of North Sumatra Medan, a man named Johan Ang (31) managed to convince at least 20 women he met via . and BlackBerry Messenger to send him nude photos of 'themselves. He told them that he could use his magical powers to eliminate "negative auras" of their bodies, provided he could see naked. Women believed that superstitious nonsense. Aura cleansing is a . scam, perpetrated by charlatans who claim to be psychic.
Johan blackmail women by threatening to expose their naked pictures. He regularly demanded sums ranging from Rp.158,000 million to Rp.5. One of his victims, a 20 year old woman, complained to the police, who then arrested the swindler in a sting operation last October. The neighbors were surprised by the arrest, describing Johan as a quiet man who lived with his parents. The police said that the victims were from Medan, Kalimantan and Jakarta. He was accused of extortion and fraud, which carry a combined maximum sentence of nine years behind bars.
Some scammers pose as talented agents to convince the aspiring models and actresses to send nude pictures. A pedophile named Tjandra Adi Gunawan, who worked as director of a shipping company in Jakarta, placed on . as a woman doctor under the pseudonym Lia Halim and befriended at least six young girls, which he believes to send sexual pictures of themselves. He then sent the photos to the parents of girls and demanded money.
In response to online romance scams, some Indonesian women formed a community . page called "Waspada Scammer Cinta '(Love Scammer Alert), the display of photos used by scammers and provide support to victims.
Online Dating scams have been around a long time, but people around the world continue to be duped. Australians last year transferred $ 23 million to scammers love, mostly based in West Africa. A high profile victim is Maria Exposto (51), originally from East Timor. She recently traveled to Shanghai in the hope of meeting her boyfriend online, which she thought was an American soldier. Instead, another man gave him a bag to take to Australia, claiming it contained documents relating to the retirement of her boyfriend. During a stopover in Kuala Lumpur on his way back to Melbourne, the bag was searched and found to contain 1.5 kg of crystal methamphetamine, for which Maria could receive the death penalty mandatory.
Some Indonesian scammers are beyond the help of pictures of soldiers and policemen to attract women. Akbar Paputungan (23) West Sulawesi posed as a member of the army in order to seduce women. He met a woman of 29 years via ., lived with her for two months and borrowed money. He promised to marry her, but she became suspicious because he never worked and still need money. She reported him to the police. He was arrested last week and now faces four years in prison fraud.